Shayna Cunningham

Associate Professor

Shayna Cunningham, PhD, M.H.S. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Cunningham received her PhD and MHS from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on promoting health equity, particularly related to maternal and child health, for structurally marginalized populations with an emphasis on community engagement. She has extensive expertise in the use of mixed methods and community-based participatory research approaches. Her current projects include the development and evaluation of interventions aimed at improving perinatal outcomes and addressing the rising burden of non-communicable diseases among women. Dr. Cunningham provides leadership and support for several State-funded initiatives at the DMHAS Center for Prevention Evaluation and Statistics at UConn Health.